DefenceSynergia is most grateful to Colonel Peter Walton RAOC (Retd) for permission to reproduce his article on the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA) website – Defence Procurement Funding. Peter Walton has a unique professional insight into the historical background behind why today’s Armed Forces’ often find themselves having to sacrifice numbers (capability) to the Continue reading
DS is pleased to reproduce Julian Lindley-French’s latest article: “When do you decide you want to bomb an adversary’s electrical company? It’s the same answer for when you would launch a cyber-attack on their electricity sector – it is just a question of how you do it”. Buky Carmeli, former Director, Israeli National Cyber Security Continue reading
DefenceSynergia is, as always, grateful to Professor Dr Julian Lindley French for permission to publish his blog, the latest one we reproduce below – Europe’s Defence Gap and the Expanding Bandwidth of War. The opening quote, which goes to the heart of the piece, is most pertinent for Defence Analysts to ponder: “I’ve seen comparative numbers Continue reading
National Defence & Strategy Research Group Exposing the incoherence and weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Strategies Contact: info@defencesynergia.co.uk, Website: www.defencesynergia.co.uk Sergeant ‘O’ And Orwellian New Speak That Is Making A Laughing Stock Out Of The British Political and Legal System It must seem to most right thinking people that to pursue a Continue reading
National Defence & Strategy Research Group Exposing the incoherence and weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and Security Strategies Contact: info@defencesynergia.co.uk, Website: www.defencesynergia.co.uk Time for all concerned supporters of HM Armed Forces to take the gloves off and speak out Just a quick look at the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) own 2017 summary of United Continue reading
DS wish to thank Professor Dr Julian Lindley-French for permission to republish this fictional (?) story. Given the current state of UK defence it makes for uncomfortable reading. Jim’s War
DS is pleased to publish this MOD verbatim script of the recent speech by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones given on 28th June 2018 at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Conference. Speech made by Admiral Sir Philip Jones, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, at the International Institute for Continue reading